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Patented NQV 6, 1883.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.5288,171, dated4 November 6, 1883.

` Application filed January 23,1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern,.-

Be it knownthat I, THOMAS F. GAYNOR, a citizen of the United States, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and valu- `able Improvement in Corset-Clasp Eyes; and

I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, mal;- ing part oithis specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view of the eye-piece. Fig. 2 is a bottom View. Fig. 3 is a transverse section 'on line :r y, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of eyepiece in corset, the buslrs and cloth being in section. Fig. 5 is a front view of saine, the clothnot shown. Figs. and 7 show spurs in different positions. Fig. S is a sectionof Fig. 6. Figs. 9,10, 11, and 12 are sectional views of spurs.

This invention has relation to improvements in corset-clasp eyes.

The object-of this invention is to secure the clasp-eyes to the buslrs Without rivets, thereby saving the expense incidental to use of said rivets inthenianufacture of corset-busks,

to avoid the wea-r upon the fabric of corsets, caused by the heads ofthe common rivets, when the latter are used, and to att-ach the eye-piece iirmly to the busks, wvith rivetingspurs passing through sniall holes in the busks, (and preferably round ones,) thus avoiding the liability of the steels breaking when in use, which is the case if oblong or rectangular perforations are made in the steels.

Tothis end the invention consistsin'an eyepiece, of sheet metal or other suitable material, made With the eye near one end to receive the corresponding locking stud or but-i ton, and having riveting-spurs projecting at right angles from its edge or edges, or from its inner side, or frein both the edge or edges and its inner side, the spurs and body of the eye-piece being all one and the saine piece of metal or material, the said spurs being adapted to fit (approximately) into corresponding small holes (and preferably round ones) in the corset-busks, and the ends of said spurs then riveted upon inner side of the busks.`

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates the eye-piece; E, the eyewhich engages with the locking stud or button in the opposite edge ofthe corset; and c a c the rivetingspurs, projecting at right angles from the body of the eye-piece.` i

S S are the buslrs, and b b the holes in the' saine, through which the spurs c a project when attached to the busks S, and are riveted thereto,` the head thus inade being shown by frr, Figs. 4 and 5. AFig. 1 shows the spurs a @projecting at right angles (from the edges) with the body of the eye-piece. Fig. 2 shows "the ends of the spurs, and Fig. 3 a vertical section of the spur and eye-piecel Fig. l2 shows the spur riveted to the busk, A being ,the eye-piece, c the spur, and r the head riveted over the edge of the hole in husk S, all being in section. Figs. 6 and 7 show spurst t t projecting from the inner side of the eye'- piece, o o being holes left therein on account ofthe stock, which makes the spur, being cut therefrom and bent up at right angles with the body, as shown more fully in section, Fig. 8. Fig. Aishovvs the eye-piece attached to the bnsk and within the sheath of the corset, like the common eye-piece, which is riveted to the buslr with separable rivets, the projectionswhich the common rivet-heads make at p being avoided; P is the locking stud or button in the opposite edge of the corset with whichV the eye E engages. l y

The eye-piece with spurs is ina-de by being out or pressed out of sheet nietal or other suitable 'material with dies in a press, the body and spurs being all one and the saine piece. lIhe spur cross-section is slightly convex on the outside and plane or concave on the inside, as shown at a c a, Figs. 1 and 2. It may be, however, rectangular or square, as shown in Fig. 9, or seniicircular, as in Fig. l0, or circular, asin Fig. 11, all of which shapes may be made with the corresponding-shaped dies. The circular shape, Fig. 11, can only be made, however, when it is inade from the inside, and is made with dies, the male of which is of considerably less diameter than the 2 esami (separable) in connection with the holes in the busks, and to have material enough to approximately fill said holes, and surplus stock enough to form a head when the ends of the spurs are riveted down against the busks; and my object is, further, to make as small holes in the busks as possible to answer this purpose, (and preferably round ones,) so as to reduce to a minimum the liability of `the busks breaking when in use, which is the case if oblong or rectangular holes are made therein; and althoughl I do not confine myself to the use of round holes-in the busks, (any small-shaped holes will answer this purpose,) I prefer using them, as they are of a shape which admits of the greatest strength and the least-sizeto both the spurs and the busks, and. because dies with round holes are the cheapest and best to make and keep in repair, andwill wear longer when used than any other shaped dies.

Itis not necessary that the crosssectional shape of the spur and the shape of the hole in the busk should be the same. It is only necessary tohave the spur have sufficient material in it to approximately fill the holes and leave a surplus for a head when the spur is riveted down upon the busk against .the end of said spur. I also allow the body of the eye-piece to project a short distance back from the line 7c of the spurs (see Fig. 2) toward thc back end, H, which takes the leverage, in a great measure, off the spurs, thereby reducing the liability of breaking the eye-piece 0H from the busk when in use-a liability which exists greatly if the eye-blank were made T-shaped or had projecting lugs from its lateral edges and back end corners. I also rivet the eyepiece rmly to the busk without one or more thicknesses of the cloth being between the eyepiece and the busk, and without the eye-piece yhavin g long rectangular lugs bent down on the outside of the cloth, and so that they may be turned up again with a blade of a knife to be removed when worn out; because the eyepiece cannot be pressed tight enough to hold permanently when one or more thicknesses of thecloth are between it and busk, and because such an eye-piece would require corresponding long rectilinear holes in the busk, and busks/with such holes would be liable to break through such holes when in use; and, further, because such lugs beingl pressed down, instead of being riveted, as must necessarily be the case, the expense of such a method of fastn ening is too great for practical or generaluse.

The effect, therefore, of the foregoing construction of my invention is that I produce a simpler, cheaper, better, and neater corsetclasp eye thanthe common clasp-eye fastened with separable rivets, andkone that can be manufactured more readily and quickly.

Iamaware of the fact that corset-clasp eyepieces and projecting fastenings, all in one piece, to be attached to corset-busk springs, are not new. Such fastenings are pressed down around the edges of the busks, or else tongues passing through corresponding slits in the busks, or both of these methods of fasten-A ing` combined; also, that riveting clasps by means of such lugs or fastenings or by the use y 1. A corset eye-piece having two or more spur-rivets, of the shape shown and described,

integral with said eye-piece, and adapted to be" the sole means of strongly and permanently fastening the eye-piece to the busk by passing through holes in the busk and being riveted up, as set forth.

2. In combination with the busk, a corset eye-piece having two or more spur-rivets,- of the shape shown and described, integral with said eye-piece, and adapted to be the sole means of strongly and permanently fastening the eye-piece to the busk by passing through holes in the busk and being riveted up, as set forth.

THOMAS F. GAYNOR.

Vitnesses: y

T. H; FITZ GERALD, JAMES CORR.

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